A recent altercation brings new meaning to the made up "boom cat cat" sound effect, a staple of Making the Band choreographer Laurie Ann Gibson. Well, ex-Making The Band choreographer.

Things got a little ugly on the set of the new season of the show, during which Diddy, with the help of Gibson and Michael Bivins, will select members for a new male R&B group. When all was said and done, Diddy had fired Gibson, and she was headed to the courthouse to file a complaint. Say it ain't so!!!

While Gibson's lawyer said cops were still probing the incident, an NYPD spokesman said Manhattan detectives investigated the allegation, found no criminality and closed the case.

In the complaint filed with Manhattan cops May 11, Gibson said she got into a heated argument with Diddy and celebrity judge Michael Bivins during the April 25 filming of the MTV show at a branch of New York Sports Clubs in Greenwich Village.

Gibson said the two men started yelling and cursing at her when she told them the dancers had been given only a day to practice in order to see what they would do in a crunch.

Bivins then allegedly grabbed her while Diddy picked up a chair and threatened her. She said she broke free, tried to run and Bivins allegedly grabbed her once again. Then she left, the complaint stated.

Sources said Diddy fired her during the angry exchange - and at one point yelled for the MTV cameras to be shut off.

The whole scene sounds dramatic and uncharacteristic of either Diddy or an innocuous 80s and early 90s boy-bander, especially if they knew the cameras were rolling. The image of Diddy threatening Laurie Ann with a chair — a detail he vehemently denies — is what gets me. I hate to not take the side of the most amusing choreographer in the business, but I'll believe it when I see the tape.

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